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Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.1278S, -68.0368WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.0368° West, 19.1278° North, depth 13 km. The temblor was reported at 01:20:46 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/20 / 2020-01-02 06:20:46 / January 2, 2020 @ 6:20 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020002013. Id of event: pr2020002013. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13 km (8 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days sixty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 71 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.17 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0368° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1278° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-02 06:20:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-02 09:00:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 155 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9292 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 329 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020002013 Id of event.
Event Code 2020002013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020002013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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